Book of Hours

Suffrages of the Saints, Suffrage to St. Peter, Prayers to the Virgin, in French

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Toronto, ON, Ontario College of Art and Design, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 50), no. 50

General Information

Title Book of Hours
Shelfmarks Ege, HL 50
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France
Date of Origin 1470-1480
Script, Hands

Written by two scribes (A and B) in a Gothic Hybrida.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 164 mm
Page Width at least 115 mm
Height of Written Area 93 mm
Width of Written Area 62 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 14 – 15

Current Condition

Dimensions 164 x 115 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Scrolling acanthus and flowers in gold and colors in outer margins (full border at the beginning of major sections); One- to two-line initials in gold leaf alternating blue with red or vice versa; line fillers in red and blue with gold accents. One extant miniature.

History

Origin

Book of Hours, likely Use of Paris (suggested by the inclusion of a suffrage for St. Denis and the ancillary texts). 

Provenance

Dismembered by Otto and Louise Ege in the mid-twentieth-century. Many leaves used as no. 50 in the "FiftyOriginal Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios.